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Maria Carolina, gli scavi e la villa dei papiri di Ercolano
No full textIl presente articolo ripercorre alcune notizie sul rapporto tra Maria Carolina d'Austria e gli scavi di Ercolano e Pompei che proprio negli anni del suo regno si stavano avviando ed espandendo. Ai papiri ercolanesi, scoperti nel 1752 e su cui si appuntava l'attenzione degli intellettuali di tutto il mondo, Maria Carolina non prestò particolare attenzione, anzi, appoggiò l'idea di chi volle che i preziosi rotoli restassero a Napoli durante l'arrivo dei francesi nel 1806. Ma la regina doveva ben conoscere le opere d'arte che venivano alla luce negli scavi: in un medaglione della biblioteca Palatina della Reggia di Caserta, infatti, il pittore Heinrich Friedrich Füger eseguì, con ogni probabilità su indicazione della regina, una riproduzione del busto del Priapo/Dioniso ritrovato nella Villa dei Papiri di Ercolano
La visite d’un érudit français sur le chantier des fouilles d’Herculanum
No full textCharles de Brosses (1709-1777) is the first French traveler who visits Herculaneum after the discovery of its ruins. He first announces to the French a world was found under the deep
lava curtain dating back to 79 A.D. During his age an important cultural debate focuses on the credibility of Antique history. The French author reaches Naples during his long studies on Sallustio and in particular during his translation of the Latin historian. In fact his interests for Sallustio leads him to Rome as well as his love and curiosity for ancient arts invite him to visit Herculaneum. This is the main reason why he reaches Naples, a town he does not like. The present work tends to demonstrate how his visit makes de Brosses’s Grand Tour more interesting by associating his love for arts and culture with his curiosity for the region of Campania. It intends to show how the underworld descent reveals something new which has been hidden miraculously for centuries. De Brosses speaks about a singular event which can astonish and amuse as well. In fact his long detailed descriptions, often scientific, help his letters’ addressee, and in general every single reader, get a glimpse of what is going to be revealed. This work tends to analyze his letters which not only contain a list of archeological discoveries from the excavation of Herculaneum, but also they include some ancient inscriptions in the Oscan language which make them more appreciated. Thanks to this cultivated French traveler, considered one of the best known among the Grand Tour writers, France learns what is happening all around Naples. In 1750 he publishes Lettres sur l’état actuel de la ville d’Herculée, where he focuses, in an academic way, his great interest for archeology and what he will insert in his two letters consecrated to Herculaneum (Letters XXXII and XXXV taken from Lettres familières). Besides the present work tends to demonstrate how his letters renew the genre inaugurated by the previous travelers who have inspired him. Finally the research intends to discuss the singular relationship between de Brosses and the city of Herculaneum which does not arouse the interest for Antiquity yet which is said to be the reason why scholars in the 18th century re-discover antiquity
Ferdinando Bologna e la costruzione dell’immagine di Bernardo de Dominici: dalla monografia su Solimena (1958) alla voce per il Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (1987).
No full textThe essay focuses on the role of Ferdinando Bologna in the re-evaluation of the figure and work of Bernardo De Dominici, starting from the fundamental monograph on Solimena of 1958 to arrive at the entry he wrote for the Biographical Dictionary of Italians in 1987
Napoli e la Campania nelle Lettres familières sur l’Italie di Charles de Brosses
No full textThe Lettres familières sur l’Italie by Charles de Brosses (1709-1777), member and then president
of the Parliament of Burgundy, historian, antiquarian and linguist, are the detailed relation
of his year’s journey (between 1739 and 1740) across Italy, made with his Genevan friends, and
published only posthumously: first (with spurious trips) by Antoine Sérieys in 1799, then with
gradually increasing fidelity to the manuscripts by Romain Colomb (1836) and Yvonne Bezard
(1931); finally restored in a form closer to the original by Letizia Norci Cagiano de Azevedo and
Giuseppina Cafasso (1991). The article focuses on the letters that de Brosses concerning Naples
and its surroundings, which show the multiplicity of his interests, supported by the refined
taste of an art lover, enthusiast of the ancient (the Lettre sur la ville d’Hercolanum, nr. XXXIII,
to the President Bouhier, is one of the first documents on the excavations in progress), but also
curious of the present, as evidenced by the continuous openings on reality, social practices, men,
performances. It’s a lively and unconventional portrait, in direct, of great interest also from the
narrative point of view, crossed by a constant ironic vein, that profoundly changes the perception
of our country ompared to the travel reports of the previous century (with which, however, de
Brosses compares himself expressly) and that will influence French travelers of the nineteenth
century, beginning with Stendhal
i nuovi assetti istituzionali nel Regno di Napoli nel periodo di Maria Carolina e di Ferdinando IV
No full textIl saggio esamina il rapporto instaurato tra i programmi riformatori di Giuseppe Maria Galanti, elaborati negli ultimi decenni del Settecento, e la costruzione dello Stato moderno napoletano ad opera della Monarchia, dei principali tribunali regi napoletani e delle più importanti Segreterie di Stato. Un assetto istituzionale che vede: il protagonismo delle segreterie di stato; una funzione chiave del nuovo tribunale della Camera di S. Chiara che, con le sue consulte, sottrae funzioni agli altri tribunali regi; l’instaurazione dei nuovo diritto del re che porta alla nuova stagione dei “dispacci” ed al tramonto delle “prammatiche” (le leggi che ispiravano il diritto del Regno). Il nuovo assetto istituzionale, nel periodo delle Riforme, è tributario del modello spagnolo della “Nuova Pianta”, che viene positivamente recepito nel Regno di Napoli
Il viaggio nel Mezzogiorno dell'età moderna: stereotipi, ragioni e suggestioni
No full textIn the 18th century the return of the attention for the Greek-Roman antiquity fosters the renewed interest for the trip to Italy. The novelty in the Midday of Italy was constituted above all by a strong presence of English nobles that on the one hand gave life to a literature with numerous stereotypes that would have weighed in the European judgment on the Southerners, but on the other hand they looked among the ancient ruins for the symbols that allowed them to acquire patrician ways of life, legitimating them in their own social supremacy in homeland. It was also England of the industrial Revolution that gathered the occasion offered by the southern archaeological discoveries, not only to exploit them through the marketing, but, following the culture and the trends, to associate them to the production of various artifacts. The Midday and the Italy, therefore, made more European the customs and trends of English elite
“Tre musei in uno”: Ferdinando Bologna e la nascita del Museo e delle Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte
No full textIl contributo è una prima riflessione sugli anni che videro Ferdinando Bologna lavorare alla nascita del Museo e delle Gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte e sul metodo sotteso alle scelte allestitive da lui fatte in qualità di ordinatore della Pinacoteca nel nuovo istituto. Il saggio prende in esame le motivazioni della riapertura e del riallestimento del Museo nel 1957, il rapporto con le strategie di sviluppo territoriale della Cassa del Mezzogiorno e le scelte metodologiche, d’ispirazione lanziana, che mossero il progetto culturale del giovane Bologna
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